Hobart's Dark Mofo Festival is attracting huge numbers of visitors this year, thanks to a new performance art piece.

Dark Mofo returns to the embrace of an enthusiastic crowd after a one-year hiatus. Here are the top 2025 highlights.

Dark Mofo is back for 2025 with $7 million in state funding. Here’s how the Hobart festival became a driver of Tasmania’s winter economy.

The summer solstice is on June 20, 2025 The summer solstice in the Southern Hemisphere happens on Dec. 21 or 22 each year. With the cool temperatures and rain in the region recently, it seems like ...

The nude solstice swim is a Dark Mofo highlight. Mona/Vanessa Ritchie After a rest in 2024, Hobart’s winter festival is back – with $7 million from the Tasmanian government for each of the ...

During an event in China earlier today, XPeng unveiled the MONA M03 Max with a slew of new color combinations, enhanced pure vision ADAS, and the full version of the Chinese automaker’s Tianji ...

Olympic champion Daniel Wiffen and fellow Paris 2024 medallist Mona McSharry will spearhead Swim Ireland’s 12-strong team into the World Championships in Singapore. Wiffen won the 800 and 1500 ...

Dark Mofo runs between 5 and 15th June as well as the Solstice Swim on the 21st. Music at Mona during the day, morphing into Basilica and Dark Park at 4pm before evening events at Odeon, Playhouse ...

Claire Walsh and Shane Dempsey of Scared Shitless at the Solstice Swim at Harbour Bar Bray. Jane O'Hara and Tara Harnett at the Solstice Swim at Harbour Bar Bray. Abacus Swim Society at their ...

The 2024 winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, happens on Saturday, Dec. 21, in the Northern Hemisphere. The celestial event signifies the first day of winter, astronomically. The winter ...

Dozens of swimmers have taken the plunge in Bristol's harbour today, for the city's first ever Winter Solstice swim. Swimming was allowed in the harbour for the first time last year after ...

Now, the winter solstice, Saturday, Dec. 21st, is upon us. It will be both the shortest day and longest night of 2024. The solstice also marks the start of the Pagan holiday, Yule, according to ...